Yowza!:huh That's tough to top!
The sliver of a moon behind the hill is amazing

HWY1 north of San Francisco, full moon...
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That is a world famous fish scale for sure. Star trails are really easy, just open up the lens, 30 sec, 800 ISO or 1600 ISO if you have a really clean chip like in the 5D, and let it run until the battery dies. I shoot at Medium Jpeg since its quicker to process.

After the stack is done I will stretch it and boost the saturation a bit in PS to bring out the dimmer stars, then maybe use a little noise ninja on the darker background if its needed. You can have all kinds of fun with lighting up objects with a light, campfire, etc, or start shooting as the moon is setting to light up the surrounding area etc.

Nice star trails and Milky Way Crashmaster! I've been thinking of trying this download http://www.startrails.de/ to stack multiple images, but is seems like so much work to shoot so many exposures. I'll check out the link you provided as well when I get around to trying this method. The star trail I posted was only one RAW exposure f 3.2, iso 200, 45 minutes. The in-camera noise reduction and Lightroom was able to clean it up pretty good. I haven't had much practice since.

...It seems like so much work to shoot so many exposures. I'll check out the link you provided as well when I get around to trying this method. The star trail I posted was only one RAW exposure f 3.2, iso 200, 45 minutes. The in-camera noise reduction and Lightroom was able to clean it up pretty good. I haven't had much practice since.

Beautiful images Antontrax.

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Naw, I've got a lot to learn from you when it comes to nighttime photography

Too much work to shoot all the exposures? Maybe you're missing that essential photo accessory of the liquid kind